Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
Ukraine
National Language
Bulgaria
Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Macedonian language
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
Моля (Molja)
будь ласк
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Podillian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
Volynian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
Rivne, Volyn
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Balgarski
Not Available
French Name
bulgare
ukrainien
German Name
Bulgarisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Not Available
Ukrainians
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
Modern Ukrainian
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
buls
Not Available
Glottocode
bulg1262
ukra1253
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Bulgarian and Ukrainian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Bulgarian and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bulgarian and Ukrainian language. Bulgarian word for "Hello" is Здравейте (Zdraveĭte) or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Bulgarian Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bulgarian vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Bulgarian vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bulgarian Alphabets and Ukrainian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Bulgarian and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bulgarian and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bulgarian is 44 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.